Tilehurst Picnic in the Park Saturday 6th May

Tilehurst Parish Council is arranging an event to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III. It will be held from 2.00pm on Saturday 6th May at Turnhams Farm recreation ground on Little Heath Road, and everyone is welcome to be involved.

On the day of the event, we plan to decorate the recreation ground with bunting and we’re inviting local groups to help us make bunting to be displayed.

We’d really like to have a “King’s Mile” of bunting, so we need as many people as possible helping us make it.

If you’d like to take part, please contact the Parish Office for details by e-mailing bookings@tilehurstpc.co.uk or calling 0118 941 8833.

On the day of the event, there will be a giant picnic with people bringing their food and drink to be enjoyed on the recreation ground.

A range of activities, as well as displays by dance and drama groups, are planned throughout the afternoon.

Further details will be published as they become available.

Jacky Major Clerk to the Parish Council

www.tilehurstparishcouncil.gov.uk

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Esther has been able to feed her family and support her two daughters, Ziwone and Rashida. She's been able to:

• buy tools for Ziwone's carpentry business

• pay for Rashida’s school costs, the lodgings near her school, and a parttime tutor

• acquire a herd of 13 goats, who provide manure for her crops, saving on expensive fertiliser

• store her pigeon peas in a warehouse, safe from floods and storms

• buy a sewing machine.

Through the cooperative and its equipment, Esther can bake pigeon pea flour bread and boost her income - and also make fish food, using a special machine provided by us.

How changes like this became possible

Thanks to people like you, this change has been possible for Esther and her community.

Esther's dream is to see Rashida graduate from college and become a nurse, and to send her two grandsons to nursery.

With your gift this Christian Aid Week, you could help more families like Esther's have a brighter future. More farmers could secure a fair price for their crops, and more loving parents like her could make their children’s dreams come true.

WATCH OUT FOR DETAILS OF OUR QUIZ EVENING ON SATURDAY 13th MAY

Richard Canning